Chicago is to be the home of a new Taylor Swift-themed bar. Electric Garden, a bar located in Chi-Town's West Loop neighborhood, is remaking itself into a pop-up venue based on T-Swift's hit Bad Blood. The bar's general manager Alex Vazquez said the Swift song, which is about a bad break up, was the perfect ode to all the anti-Valentine's Day patrons. Drinks at the pop-up will be named after some of her biggest hits, and the brunch menu will be shaped around some of Swift's favorite foods — like Fruity Pebbles french toast.
SZA's SOS
New Jersey's very own SZA is starting the year off the winning way. For the sixth-straight week her SOS album took the top spot on Billboard's Hot 200. SZA joins Janet Jackson's janet as the only other album by a woman R&B artist to have spent at least the first six weeks at number one. In the last decade, only two other women have achieved the six-week stay: Adele and Taylor Swift.
Nike X Michael Jordan
Amazon Studios is gearing up for another wide theatrical release for a film, this time focused on the partnership between Nike and Michael Jordan that changed the landscape of sports and pop culture forever. Matt Damon is set to star in Air as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro alongside Ben Affleck, who will play founder Phil Knight. The movie is slated for release on April 5 and is expected to be held in theaters longer than Amazon's previous limited theatrical runs.
The chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he beat the young Alabama woman to death on a beach in Aruba after she refused his advances. New details in the killing emerged Wednesday as Joran Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting Holloway's mother, resolving a case that has captivated the public’s attention for nearly 20 years.
The trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted this year in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment — and now the case is touching on the tech world with arguments that his defense attorney bungled the case, in part, by using an artificial intelligence program to write his closing arguments.
Israel said Wednesday that it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day siege on the territory. Palestinians reeled from a massive blast at a Gaza City hospital that killed hundreds the day before and grew increasingly desperate as food and water supplies ran out.
A 4000-year-old slab of rock is being dubbed a treasure map for archaeologists. The rock was found in 1900 at the site of an ancient tomb in northwestern France and it was declared Europe's oldest known map in 2021.
